A surgeon isn’t a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at. (…) My current goal with AI coding tools is to spend 100% of my time doing stuff that matters.
There’s a lot of talk about AI replacing humans everywhere, but it’s usually pretty vague. I don’t see myself getting replaced anytime soon. I try to explain to people that I use AI all the time, but mostly for secondary tasks that eat up my time and mental space. This is the best metaphor I’ve come across to describe exactly how I feel about it.
My time’s better spent on product strategy, vision, and problem-solving than logging Jira tickets, filing expense reports, and summarizing meeting notes.
Source: geoffreylitt.com